Record High Americans Say Big Government Greatest Threat To United States

Seventy-two percent of Americans today say big government is the greatest threat to the United States – more than big business, big labor…

…all the while big government itself has aimed its sights on anyone and any group it deems a threat to its burgeoning behemoth parasitic self, while it sucks the blood out of we American citizens – it’s slowly dieing body-host.

The highest percentage ever recorded, a December-2013 Gallup poll reveals 72% of Americans say that their own ‘big government’ is a greater threat to the United States than big business and big labor.

Gallup has documented a steady increase in concern about big government since 2009, rising from 55% in March 2009 to 64% in November 2011 and 72% today. This suggests that government policies specific to the period, such as the Affordable Care Act coupled with recent revelations of government spying tactics by the NSA may be factors.

Americans don’t trust their government.

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.”

-Thomas Jefferson

Definition of TYRANNY

oppressive power ;
especially : oppressive power exerted by government

a government in which absolute power is vested in a single ruler

the office, authority, and administration of a tyrant

Examples of TYRANNY

a nation ruled by tyranny
The king sought an absolute tyranny over the colonies.
The refugees were fleeing tyranny.

The Methodology of Tyranny

(excerpted from Constitution.org)

Control of public information and opinion
It begins with withholding information, and leads to putting out false or misleading information. A government can develop ministries of propaganda under many guises. They typically call it “public information” or “marketing”.

Vote fraud used to prevent the election of reformers
It doesn’t matter which of the two major party candidates are elected if no real reformer can get nominated, and when news services start knowing the outcomes of elections before it is possible for them to know, then the votes are not being honestly counted.

Seeking a government monopoly on the capability and use of armed force
The first signs are efforts to register or restrict the possession and use of firearms, initially under the guise of “protecting” the public, which, when it actually results in increased crime, provides a basis for further disarmament efforts affecting more people and more weapons.

Militarization of law enforcement
Declaring a “war on crime” that becomes a war on civil liberties. Preparation of military forces for internal policing duties.

Infiltration and subversion of citizen groups that could be forces for reform
Internal spying and surveillance is the beginning. A sign is false prosecutions of their leaders.

Suppression of investigators and whistleblowers
When people who try to uncover high level wrongdoing are threatened, that is a sign the system is not only riddled with corruption, but that the corruption has passed the threshold into active tyranny.

Use of the law for competition suppression
It begins with the dominant faction winning support by paying off their supporters and suppressing their supporters’ competitors, but leads to public officials themselves engaging in illegal activities and using the law to suppress independent competitors.

Subversion of internal checks and balances
This involves the appointment to key positions of persons who can be controlled by their sponsors, and who are then induced to do illegal things. The worst way in which this occurs is in the appointment of judges that will go along with unconstitutional acts by the other branches.

Creation of a class of officials who are above the law
This is indicated by dismissal of charges for wrongdoing against persons who are “following orders”.

Increasing dependency of the people on government
The classic approach to domination of the people is to first take everything they have away from them, then make them compliant with the demands of the rulers to get anything back again.

Increasing public ignorance of their civic duties and reluctance to perform them
When the people avoid doing things like voting and serving in militias and juries, tyranny is not far behind.

Use of staged events to produce popular support
Acts of terrorism, blamed on political opponents, followed immediately with well-prepared proposals for increased powers and budgets for suppressive agencies. Sometimes called a Reichstag plot.

Conversion of rights into privileges
Requiring licenses and permits for doing things that the government does not have the delegated power to restrict, except by due process in which the burden of proof is on the petitioner.

Political correctness
Many if not most people are susceptible to being recruited to engage in repressive actions against disfavored views or behaviors, and led to pave the way for the dominance of tyrannical government.

Do the methods above sound eerily present? How many of them ring true today? Is it a wonder that Americans say big government is the greatest threat to the United States?

9 Comments

Political correctness and the recent phenomenon of forcing people in to “free speech zones” is the beginning of the end for our nation. More and more, I find myself hoping and praying for a complete, world-wide collapse of the financial system on a scale that would require a new system to be created from the ashes. Until financial repression is addressed, and until the oligarchs and billionaires are held to account for the strip mining of our country, true reform cannot occur.

I hear folks talking about revolution, using it as a catch phrase rather than with the absolute seriousness with which it should be addressed. These same arm-chair warriors would pee their pants and cry in to their handcuffs as they are loaded in to the bus to the FEMA camp. I have grown disgusted with the constant capitulation of those in Congress any time something important is held hostage by the Marxist majority. I see nothing but the erosion of our rights, the criminilazation of opposition, the rise of the minority [gay rights, black power, illegal immigrant lobby, etc.] as the real power behind the political voice and the enforcement of revisionist history in public schools.

With complete collapse the cream will rise to the top. Period. Millions will perish and millions more will suffer unimaginable pain, hunger and probably disease as well. I do not personally wish to live through that, but as far as I can see, what we now have is absolutely beyond reform. Without dissolving about two thirds of government, to include the CIA, NSA, EPA, and a dozen more alphabet agencies, change cannot and will not occur.

LOL! An arm chair prognosticator whining about arm chair warriors. Are you just upset that someone has not started the revolution for which you yearn, but also lack the guts to start? When the revolution starts, will you join in and fight the good fight? At what point would your own urine start to flow?

I agree with Ancona, however, it is clear that there is no leader among us. Maybe Phil Robertson? A&E suspended him from the show so now he’s got a whole lot of time on his hands. Miley Cirus can get on national TV and act like a whore but a God fearing man cannot say his personal beliefs regarding moral and decent behaviour? Our country has really gone in the crapper. When will any of us stand up and be courageous and risk it all for what is right? God bless America.

All of them ring very true… I agree we need a complete and total reset of the system. No one has started because everyone is afraid of the government which is exactly why it is called tyranny. We all know what happens if you speak out against the government… Ask Snowden!! That is why all the armchair warriors and no Fort Sumpter…. Yet….

I feel that what possibly be the main catalyst that will start the 2nd Revolution is when restrictive gun control is tried to be passed and is passed.If most of ya’ll remember that it almost happened in April,and probably would have if the gun control bill was passed.The leftist s in government are very arrogant in their thinking that gun owning patriots will cower when the jackboots come for firearms,they also think that the citizens are afraid of the military and the armed alphabet agencies,if ya’ll think about it for a minute as for small arms the citizens outgun the government,and there are a lot of prior military service vets out there that also do not like what is happening today,and a lot of citizens can learn a lot from them.As for starting the fight I feel that the government will be the one to take the step to take away our freedom more and more and we will have no choice once our backs are to the wall,remember when you have your back against the wall you have no way but to fight your way forward!I am waiting until the call is finally sounded,then I will answer the call as a free man not a slave,just remember all it took the first time was 3%,and they won.Be prepared and ready.Keep your powder dry.

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